Description: Discusses the significant role the album played for the careers of Tabu Ley Rochereau and Docteur Nico, and more importantly, the genre of Congolese rhumba music.
Brief description: Frank Gunderson is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Florida State University, USA. He served as editor (2018-2022) of the journal Ethnomusicology and has conducted extensive fieldwork in East Africa. He is the author of Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania (2019), which was the 2009-2011 winner of the Kwabena Nketia Book Award for best African music monograph, as well as The Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka - Rhumba Kiserebuka! (2018). He co-edited with Robert Lancefield and Bret Woods The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation (2019). His recent film Stories about Mlimani Park Orchestra is playing in film festivals worldwide.